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Friday, 26 October 2012

Kartforce

1st KARTFORCE CHALLENGE CUPSAT 20th OCT - LLANDOW

This weekend was a major milestone for KartForce.

The
RAFMSA, together with the support of Silver Fox Karting and South Wales
Karting Centre at Llandow organised this event to raise funds for us,
the RAFBF and ABF. As it was such a huge success, this will become an
annual event that will be the final race of the annual Inter Services
Karting Championships.

It
was an excellent day – fantastic sunshine and nose-to-nose racing. We
entered 2 teams and even after several enforced stops due to mechanical
problems, the lads came 12th and 18th.

However,
this was only part of what made this weekend so special. Ken Denscombe
and Colin Lipscomb, owners of SilverFoxKarting had a surprise for us.
We’ve raced against SilverFoxKarting a few times this year and they were
so impressed by the lads determination and performance on the track
that they decided to build us a brand new racing kart. This was
supported by funds donated by Blewin Dolphin, who also entered a team
and raced against us.

Many
other companies contributed towards this kart so we have a long list of
people to thank. Please see all the contributors on the image below.

This
weekend was one we will remember for a long time. It means so much to
get all this support and encouragement from so many people. The truth
is, the lads don’t truly appreciate how much they’ve achieved in such a
short amount of time, with very limited equipment and funding. So when
we’re bombarded with all this sort of support it’s hard for to sink in
that’s this is everyone’s way of showing their admiration and respect.

It’s moments like this that make us overflow with pride to be British. From all of us at KartForce, “Thank you!”